Pro tip: a stranger in line told me to stop fighting my messy journal
I used to spend 45 minutes trying to make every spread look perfect, then a woman at a bus stop in Denver saw my notebook and said 'the ugly pages are the ones you actually use.' Two months later I quit whiting out mistakes and just crossed stuff off, and I have filled 3 notebooks since.
Wait, a complete stranger just walked up and read your notebook at a bus stop? That blows my mind. I would be so weirded out if some random person in Denver started commenting on my journal pages. Did she just glance over your shoulder or did you actually hand it to her? Either way, that line about ugly pages being the ones you actually use is kind of perfect. Three notebooks in two months is wild, I can barely finish one in a year.